This compilation includes three Jack Reacher novellas and the ultimate fan guide, "Jack Reacher's Rules".
Deep Down: In thriller master Lee Child’s short story "Deep Down", Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier’s clothing - by matching wits with four formidable females.
Second Son: A young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done.
High Heat: In the midst of a savage heat wave and an infamous murder spree, a blackout awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps - and a young Jack Reacher takes action.

2 out of 5 stars

Disappointed!!

By
Philip
on
06-08-14

Don't Know Jack

The Hunt For Reacher Series #1

By:
Diane Capri

Narrated by:
Kelley Hazen

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
612

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
560

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
556

It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in
Killing Floor. Fifteen years and sixteen novels later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of listeners and the dismay of villains. Now someone big is looking for him. Who? And why? Hunting Jack Reacher is a dangerous business, as FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are about to find out.

3 out of 5 stars

I maybe in the minority but I liked the concept

By
Harry Boyle
on
12-25-13

The Hunger

By:
Alma Katsu

Narrated by:
Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
7

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone - or something - is stalking them. Whether it was a curse from the beautiful Tamsen, the choice to follow an experimental route West, or just bad luck - the 90 men, women, and children of the Donner Party are at the brink of one of the deadliest adventures in history.

5 out of 5 stars

Intense, visceral, excellent read

By
j
on
03-09-18

The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1

By:
Michael Connelly

Narrated by:
Dick Hill

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,942

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
9,291

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
9,273

For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell.

4 out of 5 stars

What a Terrific Book

By
Daniel McAfee
on
08-01-08

The Gray Man

By:
Mark Greaney

Narrated by:
Jay Snyder

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12,153

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
10,481

Story

4 out of 5 stars
10,465

Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.

5 out of 5 stars

Action packed, edge of your seat "page-turner"

By
Jason Spencer
on
09-01-10

The Innocent: A Novel

By:
David Baldacci

Narrated by:
Ron McLarty,
Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12,440

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,048

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,039

Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career.... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a 14-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway....

3 out of 5 stars

Disliked all the Sound Effects.

By
Stan
on
07-16-14

Three Jack Reacher Novellas (with Bonus Jack Reacher's Rules)

Deep Down, Second Son, High Heat, and Jack Reacher's Rules

By:
Lee Child

Narrated by:
Dick Hill,
Lee Child

Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
669

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
594

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
589

This compilation includes three Jack Reacher novellas and the ultimate fan guide, "Jack Reacher's Rules".
Deep Down: In thriller master Lee Child’s short story "Deep Down", Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier’s clothing - by matching wits with four formidable females.
Second Son: A young Jack Reacher knows how to finish a fight so it stays finished. He knows how to get the job done so it stays done.
High Heat: In the midst of a savage heat wave and an infamous murder spree, a blackout awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps - and a young Jack Reacher takes action.

2 out of 5 stars

Disappointed!!

By
Philip
on
06-08-14

Don't Know Jack

The Hunt For Reacher Series #1

By:
Diane Capri

Narrated by:
Kelley Hazen

Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
612

Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
560

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
556

It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in
Killing Floor. Fifteen years and sixteen novels later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of listeners and the dismay of villains. Now someone big is looking for him. Who? And why? Hunting Jack Reacher is a dangerous business, as FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are about to find out.

3 out of 5 stars

I maybe in the minority but I liked the concept

By
Harry Boyle
on
12-25-13

The Hunger

By:
Alma Katsu

Narrated by:
Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
7

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone - or something - is stalking them. Whether it was a curse from the beautiful Tamsen, the choice to follow an experimental route West, or just bad luck - the 90 men, women, and children of the Donner Party are at the brink of one of the deadliest adventures in history.

5 out of 5 stars

Intense, visceral, excellent read

By
j
on
03-09-18

The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1

By:
Michael Connelly

Narrated by:
Dick Hill

Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,942

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
9,291

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
9,273

For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal. The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell.

4 out of 5 stars

What a Terrific Book

By
Daniel McAfee
on
08-01-08

The Gray Man

By:
Mark Greaney

Narrated by:
Jay Snyder

Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12,153

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
10,481

Story

4 out of 5 stars
10,465

Court Gentry is known as The Gray Man - a legend in the covert realm, moving silently from job to job, accomplishing the impossible, and then fading away. And he always hits his target. But there are forces more lethal than Gentry in the world. And in their eyes, Gentry has just outlived his usefulness. Now, he is going to prove that for him, there's no gray area between killing for a living-and killing to stay alive.

5 out of 5 stars

Action packed, edge of your seat "page-turner"

By
Jason Spencer
on
09-01-10

The Innocent: A Novel

By:
David Baldacci

Narrated by:
Ron McLarty,
Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
12,440

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,048

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
11,039

Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career.... It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.

Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a 14-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway....

3 out of 5 stars

Disliked all the Sound Effects.

By
Stan
on
07-16-14

Publisher's Summary

New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't.

In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choice and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1 New York Times best seller Lee Child.

Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how big a hole Susan Mark was in, how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now.

Because a race has begun through the streets of Manhattan in a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Mark's plain little life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, Afghanistan...from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tell and to a host of others who have just one thing in common: They're all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or maybe just enough to get him killed.

In a novel that slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America...and for Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, it's a mystery with only one answer the kind that comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.

Story

Best work yet!

The plot was well developed and, unlike some other authors, believably plausible. I truely enjoy how Lee Child can draw out a seconds-long scene with such fine detail that brings the reader into the mind of his character. Reacher is one of my favorite characters, I look forward to more excellent books from this author. Meanwhile, this is definately a book to revisit!

Much ado/nothing

I am a Jack Reacher fan but this is not Lee Childs best work. The story held my attention and I did listen to the end but was not satisfied with it. Reacher constantly reacted out of sync with what was happening in the story. The main plot line was never truly explained on the Afghan side. I still don't know why they were after something that was abnormal for them to be after, and spend so much money and resources to try to obtain it. Maybe I missed something but I think not. Still if you are a Reacher fan go for it.

Reacher is back!

After I lost several hours with Nothing to Lose I took a few months break from Reacher novels. Child brings back the Man of Steel in Gone Tomorrow. Who cares if the antagonists are members of the "weaker" gender. They are evil incarnate and Reacher is back to his old ways of kicking butt and taking no prisoners. Yes the book had its fair share of barely believable scenarios but that's standard fare for Reacher novels. I also noticed that Child switched Reacher to the first person in this book. I figured it out when Reacher first uttered, "I said nothing." Reacher fans should know that previous novels are replete with sightings of "Reacher said nothing." I don't think this change added or subtracted to the finished product. If you were disappointed with Nothing to Lose, you will be pleased that it appears to be an anomalous effort. Five stars for Gone Tomorrow.

Child Needs an Editor

I gave this book four stars because I love the Reacher series and Lee Child and I'm glad there's another book. However . . . this novel is badly in need of editing. There are numerous interminable conversations that recap information we already know. I actually carried on conversations with other people while listening to parts of this book with one earbud in, just waiting for something to happen.

As usual, Reacher kicks the bad-guys around, and there are a couple of satisfying twists, and plenty of national and international intrigue. The evildoer is very evil, the stakes very high, and the conclusion ties up loose ends. But I get the sense that Child was just going through the motions, trying to keep a best-selling character alive and fill up a few hundred pages, without really feeling it. Usually I'm at the edge of my seat with the Reacher books. This time, I could have used a fast-forward function.

If you're new to Child and Reacher, pick one of the earlier books, like "The Killing Floor", to start with.

4* For the series

I love these books. This one is the best of the few I have read. Happily, Child didn't use his "I said nothing" macro key quite as often as before. I know that these are fantasies, etc., but there are some totally too far out accidents and mistakes, things ignored and not followed, opportunities not plumbed. i.e. In this story, early on, much was made about the GPS tracking capabilities on cell phones. Near the height of the final action, Jack leaves the phone on for "hours," feeling and ignoring the vibration, etc... he should have been trackable.. stuff like that... but in all, terrific. getting better and better. Serious violence, delicately portrayed. Each of the Reacher stories contains a max of 2 horrible descriptions of sadism, and they are described in what is almost but not quite unbearable. Beyond that, they are almost G rated, but real "page turners." The end game fights are always a little too superhero-ish, but that is what this is... I really appreciate all the education packed into these stories: History, politics, technology, weather, engineering, trains, city layouts, very informative. I really, really like the hidden allusions to cultural (especially classic rock music). Keep 'em coming!

This was a great listen!

I've always enjoyed this series, and I love listening to Dick Hill narrate. The book was just what you expect with Lee Child's Jack Reacher series. Not as much of a love life in this one but good all the same. You won't be dissappointed.

Best of the Series!

This is one of only a few books out of hundreds that I felt compelled to read more than once. Lee Child should have won an award for the opening scene alone; it's brilliant! The tension starts on page one and the author slowly teases the reader on. This is not a book to listen to in the background, but one that is best enjoyed without any distractions. In fact, I listened to the book the first time a year ago, then read the kindle version recently and it was better the second time around ... deceivingly complex. As another reviewer mentioned, this is not a book full of B-movie scenes and big explosions... it is more grounded in reality and has a well researched background. Loved it!

Disappointing

I'm a HUGE Reacher fan - aren't we all. But, this story barely had a plot and LOTS of very discriptive torture parts. There were s couple parts that I had to fast forward through and I'm pretty accepting if part of the story. OK this was part of the story to an extent - but, WAY overboard. He must have had a deadline and thrown this together and it shows. Bummer.

With One Exception

I found this to be a great listen almost all the way through; then one scene has Reacher pulling a move of such colossal ignorance that it briefly ruined the entire lead up to this climatic scene. Though Child attempts to explain the mistake away it still comes off as a highly improbable mistake from a fighting man of Reacher's caliber.With that stipulation out of the way I found this to be an excellent listening experience as a good comeback from the dreadful Nothing To Lose. Though the villain and the force behind all the subsequent events come to light halfway through the book there is suspense leading up to the final scene. Given the weakness I've already alluded to leading up to the dramatic ending; it was still quite satisfying to see the ruthless killers get their comeuppance. The look back at the Russians fighting in Afghanistan was interesting; as was the politician hoping to avoid a past mistake coming to light. without that one huge mistake this was easily a five star rating; even with it overall this work is still a five.